Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

Skills

Responsibilities

• 01Own and maintain Anthropic's conventional weapons policy, defining the boundary between the activities our models should and should not support
• 02Build the threat models and evaluations that measure how our models could contribute to weapons development, including the software and autonomy components that define modern weapons systems, and keep them current as the technology and its misuse evolve
• 03Partner with engineering to turn the policy into model guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling
• 04Serve as the subject-matter expert for escalations involving conventional weapons content, including rapid response to emerging risks
• 05Build shared understanding of the policy across product, engineering, legal, and leadership, communicating its reasoning to technical and non-technical audiences
• 06Engage external experts as well as government and industry partners, and translate that engagement into stronger policy and enforcement

Requirements

• 01Have deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and can translate complex technical evidence into sound policy judgments
• 02Experience in a relevant setting, such as a service research laboratory, a defense research or innovation agency, or a company that designs or builds weapons systems
• 03Can write clear, operationally precise policy and explain complex technical topics to non-specialist audiences
• 04Understand the legal frameworks governing weapons and their transfer, and can craft policy that holds up across jurisdictions
• 05Can do rigorous technical analysis of weapons systems using only open sources
• 06Are comfortable with ambiguity and drawn to problems that have no established playbook
• 07Are motivated by preventing misuse without obstructing the legitimate work in the field
• 08A working understanding of machine learning and large language model fundamentals
• 09Hands-on engineering experience in a weapons-relevant technical domain, such as systems engineering, robotics and autonomy, guidance/navigation/control, sensors and signal processing, aerospace or mechanical engineering, materials and energetics, or embedded software
• 10Hands-on experience applying arms export controls (ITAR/EAR) or international arms-control regimes
• 11Experience building or evaluating classifiers, including LLM-based ones, and reasoning about precision and recall for rare, high-consequence categories
• 12Trust & safety or product policy experience at a technology platform
• 13Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• 14Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• 15Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

What we offer

• 01Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• 02Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.